Edrian Elms, aka Khalid Masud

The terrorist attack in the capital of Great Britain was committed by a 52-year-old English teacher

On March 23, the British police revealed the name of the London terrorist, who crushed three people and killed a policeman right at the British parliament building. This is the 52-year-old Khalid Masud, a citizen of Great Britain, who was born in the county of Kent and worked as a teacher of English; Until the early 2000s, his name was Edrian Elms. Medusa tells who the London terrorist was - and how he came to radical Islam.

Edrian Elms was born in 1964 in the city of Dartford in the county of Kent only 30 kilometers from London. His mother was then 17 years old, she did not maintain relations with the biological father of the child. Edian's mother is white, a black father. When Edian was 2 years old, his mother married and subsequently moved to the town of Paradise near the coast of the La-Channel. Now Janet Elms (in the marriage of Ajao) with her husband lives in Wales and sells her own manufacturing bags, she has not communicated with her son for more than ten years, writes The Daily Mail.

Elms is well known for the British police, he was repeatedly detained and sentenced to prison for various offenses. For the first time he was judged in 1983 for violation of public order, in 2000 and 2003 he received a prison time for attacks with a knife-in one of the cases, Elms himself claimed, he thus answered racist insults, and complained that in the city where he lived, they were poorly related to black. Elms often changed his place of residence, but basically did not go outside the south of England and settled in small towns and villages within an hour or two riding from London. In the early 2000s, he was engaged in the installation of satellite television sets.

While in prison, Elms accepted Islam and began to call himself Halid Masud. Having freed himself in the mid-2000s, he married a Muslim (he has three children from different marriages), and later received a license from an English teacher and went to work in Saudi Arabia. In 2009, Masud returned to his homeland, lived in the vicinity of London and in the east of the capital of Great Britain, and then moved to Birmingham (this city is called the Radical Islamian Careburner in the UK). After returning, he continued to work as an English teacher.

Some neighbors of Masuda spoke about him as a religious person who always dressed in black and basically appeared on the street in the dark, although he was seen by the children who were allocating to school. Others said, writes The Guardian that he was a sweet person who had never caused anyone trouble.

March 21, the day before the attack in London, Masud arrived in Brighton and stopped at the inexpensive Park Hotel Hotel. In the evening of the same day, he had dinner with a kebab, and in the morning he was discharged from the hotel, took the Hyundai car, on which he will later crush people on the Westminster bridge in the capital of Great Britain. Masud remained in this hotel several times for a week preceding the terrorist attack - and each time asked to find a cheaper room for him. What he did while in Brighton is unknown, but, apparently, as The Sun writes , he went to Gatwik and London.

Designing from the hotel, Masud was polite, smiled and willingly supported the conversation with the staff. He said that he lives in Birmingham in an apartment over the guitar store, writes The Daily Mail, but he himself is not from this area; The man had a noticeable London accent. He boasted that he bought a house for 10 thousand pounds, which now costs half a million, and complained that his father was sick with cancer, and his mother was heavily experiencing this situation.

“I'll go to London today. The city is not the same as before, ”he said, before leaving the hotel. In London, Masud began to press people on the Westminster bridge, crashed into the fence of the parliament building and attacked a policeman with two knives. Four people were killed, including a police officer, Masuda shot. Responsibility for the attack in London was taken by the Islamic State terrorist group.

Pavel Borisov